At her home in Roubaix, a former industrial centre in northern France that’s now the country’s poorest city, Magdalene Deleporte is making her own deodorant.
“It is fast and super easy,” she says, giving a demonstration with a recipe involving coconut oil, baking powder and a few drops of fragrant oils. “It takes five minutes: you let it melt in a water bath and then leave it to set,” says the 38-year old nurse.
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